UNESCO Thesaurus: alphabetical list

This page allows you to search the UNESCO Thesaurus alphabetically. Each group of 40 terms links to the terms in that group.  The list includes preferred terms and non-preferred terms. The following abbreviations are used: BT (broader term), FR (French equivalent), NT (narrower term), MT (microthesaurus heading), RT (related term), SN (scope note), SP (Spanish equivalent), UF (non-preferred term). Terms which are acronyms (e.g. UK) and compound terms which begin with acronyms (e.g. AIDS education) are listed at the start of their alphabetical section, rather than in alphabetical order.

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Abandoned children - Accessibility of information

Accessions - Admission requirements

Adolescence - Afrikaans

After school activities - Agricultural prices

Agricultural production - Aliens

Allegory - Animal feeding

Animal genetics - Aptitude

Aptitude tests - Archive finding aids

Archive inventories - Art history

Art imitations - Astronomical observatories

Astronomical systems - Authority lists

Authors - Bangladesh

Banking - Bibliographic control

Bibliographic databanks - Biological change

Biological communities - Blockades

Blue collar workers - Brahmanism

Braille - Building stones

Buildings - Cape Verde

Capital - Catalogue formats

Cataloguers - Centralized cataloguing

Ceramic art - Child mortality

Child protection - Circuses

CIS countries - Classrooms

Clays - Coeducational schools

Coffee - Commercial policy

Commercial television - Communication programmes

Communication projects - Comparative research

Compensatory education - Computer personnel

Computer piracy - Conflict research

Conflict resolution - Continental shelf

Continents - Cost analysis

Cost benefit analysis - Cross cultural analysis

Cross national analysis - Cultural crises

Cultural demand - Cultural legislation

Cultural life - Cultural users

Cultural values - Cytology

Czech - Dead Sea

Deaf - Delinquency

Deltas - Development administration

Development aid - Diplomacy

Diplomas - Distributive education

Diversification of education - Dominican Republic

Doping - E-governance

E-learning - Economic crisis

Economic dependence - Economics of communication

Economics of culture - Educational associations

Educational attendance - Educational governing boards

Educational grants - Educational planning

Educational plans - Educational trusts

Educational video - Electronic governance

Electronic learning - Empowerment

Encoding - Entertainment

Entomology - Enzymes

Epic poetry - Ethnobotany

Ethnocentrism - Exchange programmes

Exchange rates - Faculty

Fairy tales - Fee paying schools

Feedback (communication) - Films

Finance - Fluid mechanics

Fluorination - Foreign relations

Foreign students - French

French Guiana - Galaxies

Gambia - Geographers

Geographical data - Girls education

Girls enrolment - Grassroots development

Gravimetric prospecting - Gujarati

Gulf States - Hearing aids

Hearing impaired - Historic sites

Historic sites preservation - Horn of Africa

Horticulture - Human reproduction

Human resources - Hydrography

Hydrological basins - Imagination

Immigrants - Individualized teaching

Individuals - Industrial robots

Industrial safety - Information media

Information needs - Information/library planning

Information/library policy - Integrated education

Integrated information systems - International auxiliary lingua

International bibliographies - International tensions

International trade - Iron ores

Irradiation - Job training

Jobs - Kiswahili

Kitsch - Labour requirements

Labour standards - Language teaching

Language types - Learning difficulties

Learning disabilities - Legislature

Legumes - Library extension

Library facilities - Linguistic research

Linguistic rights - Local broadcasting

Local communities - Maintenance

Maintenance engineering - Manuals

Manufacturing industry - Market gardening

Market research - Mathematicians

Mathematics - Medical services

Medical technology - Metal industry

Metal mining - Microorganisms

Microphotography - Mineralogy

Minerals - Modular courses

Modular curriculum - Mosaics

Moslem law - Municipal libraries

Murals - Musical theory

Musicians - National stereotypes

National theatre - Network analysis

Neurobiology - Niue

Noise - Novels

Nuclear accidents - Occupational diseases

Occupational guidance - Oceanology

Oceans - Operations research

Ophthalmology - Overpopulation

Oxygen - Paraprofessional educational personnel

Parapsychology - Peacekeeping forces

Peacekeeping operations - Personnel selection

Persuasion - Photochemistry

Photocomposition - Pilgrimages

Pilot projects - Plastics

Plateaus - Political parties

Political philosophy - Population decline

Population decrease - Poverty

Poverty alleviation - Press councils

Press cuttings - Prison libraries

Prisoners - Professors

Profitability - Protest movements

Protestantism - Public information

Public international law - Quality of working life

Quantitative analysis - Radio receivers

Radio serials - Reading programmes

Reading promotion - Regional disparities

Regional economy - Religious music

Religious orders - Research institutes

Research institutions - Restoration

Restoration of monuments - Right to privacy

Right to property - Role playing

Roman law - Rééducation orthophonique

Sacred sites - Satellites

Saudi Arabia - School librarians

School libraries - Science statistics

Scientific activities - Scriptwriters

Sculptors - Seismic monitoring

Seismic prospecting - Serbocroatian

Serials - Shorthand

Shrines - Slovak Republic

Slovakia - Social inequality

Social influence - Social stratification

Social structure - Soil classification

Soil compaction - South Africa

South America - Special teacher training

Specialists - Standardization

Standards - Stoneware

Storage devices - Student seminars

Student sociology - Supply

Supply and demand - Tahitian

Tai languages - Teacher education schools

Teacher educator training - Teaching methods

Teaching practice - Technological innovations

Technological institutes - Teletext

Televiewers - Textbooks

Textile arts - Tidal waves

Tidal zones - Trade unions

Traditional architecture - Transnational corporations

Transnational data flow - Tundra

Tungsten - Underground press

Underground water - Unmarried

Unmarried mothers - USSR

Utopia - Viet Nam

Vietnamese - Volunteers

Voodoo - Water demineralization

Water discharge - Welfare state

Wells - Womens organizations

Womens participation - World trade

World war - Zoroastrianism


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